Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Are Bézier with only one handle bad ?

  411 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 5
• Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?

  312 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Kent Lew May 26
• [OTVar] Baseline curvature axis?

  616 views 19 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 23
• Cubic B-splines for type design.

  305 views 10 comments 2 points Most recent by Belleve Invis May 15
• Reason for separating Latin and Cyrillic kerning groups?

  142 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney May 14
• Pseudo-random distress: a redundancy?

  268 views 8 comments 5 points Most recent by Nick Shinn May 8
• HDR laptop display and beautiful typography

  821 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Paul Miller May 5
• [OTVar] Best solution of interpolating inverted glyphs

  390 views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by Belleve Invis May 3
• Please list your favorite foreign looking Latin fonts

  239 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian April 29
• Learning to see Type

  660 views 18 comments 2 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney April 27
• What is the point in naming a few completely different fonts "Futura «Something»"?

  460 views 18 comments 1 point Most recent by Florian Hardwig April 19
• Table of the Evolution of English Language

  492 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Katy Mawhood April 13
• Turns out people don't know what g looks like

  695 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Helbig April 11
• What was the difference between design and art, and what is it now?

  220 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn April 9
• User friendly family naming

  373 views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 6
• Onĕipŏt is not a real language.

  394 views 11 comments 4 points Most recent by joeclark April 6
• Designing Phonetic Characters

  710 views 37 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard March 30
• Modifying an open source font, where to start?

  236 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland March 30
• Upper store of the lc a

  311 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland March 25
• Should the bullet sign be slanted in italic?

  490 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 18
• Widths, weights and appropriate naming

  779 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Veneklaas March 18
• The design of Ŋ in high-contrast typefaces

  255 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Kaczun March 17
• Copies of Origin of the Serif available

  141 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Paul Miller March 15
• Pre-digital Type Specimens Digitalization articles

  121 views 0 comments 0 points Started by António Fonseca March 13
• Some newbie questions about Greek

  251 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev March 12
• Optical compensations and writing tools

  1K views 33 comments 1 point Most recent by PabloImpallari March 10
• TDC

  570 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier March 9
• know-how on proper Font Style view

  130 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by zydrius March 8
• Why is 4 the magical Path Minimum Length?

  274 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Bailey March 7
• Kerning in FontLab Studio VI

  241 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by James Montalbano March 7